"Then even if statesmen go crazy again, as they used to be, the use of these weapons will not destroy civilization."
-- Hans Bethe, the John Wendell Professor of Physics Emeritus, discussing the letter he sent to President Clinton in April urging that the United States declare it would forgo all work to devise new weapons of mass destruction, in The New York Times on June 17.
"Kids who are smaller, who are fearful, who are timid -- these kids are more likely to get singled out."
-- James Garbarino, director of the Family Life Development Center, discussing which children become chronic victims of bullies, in the May issue of Ladies' Home Journal.
"The benefits of vaccination still outweigh the risks in the vast majority of situations. But when we find a situation where we can omit a vaccination, that's what we want to do."
-- James Richards, director of the Feline Health Center, discussing the danger of cats getting cancer at the site of vaccinations, in the June 4 London Daily Telegraph.
"My suspicion is this fund-raising was a rogue operation that fund-raisers sometimes do when things are not going well. It sounds out of character for Carey who has spent his whole lifetime building this clean reputation."
-- Michael Belzer, senior research associate at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, on the allegation that a fund-raiser for Teamster President Ronald Carey committed mail fraud in the recent Teamster president election, in The New York Times on June 7.
"[Betty Shabazz] emerged as a major public figure in her own right and a woman of considerable voice and influence. It's amazing how this has happened."
-- James Turner, director of the Africana Studies and Research Center, in the Baltimore Sun on June 8, discussing Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, after she was seriously injured in a fire.
"We have to keep it pretty clean, because it's the world's largest microwave oven. When we turn on our new one-million-watt radar beam reaching out to targets like Jupiter's moons, anything combustible left on the reflector catches fire. If we ever run out of money, we can operate the Arecibo telescope as the world's biggest popcorn machine."
-- Donald B. Campbell, associate director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Cornell, in a story on the recent Arecibo Observatory upgrade in The New York Times on June 17.